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lundi 30 septembre 2024, 20:41
DirecTV has agreed to acquire struggling rival Dish Network, creating a satellite TV behemoth with nearly 20 million subscribers. The complex transaction, announced Monday, involves private equity firm TPG acquiring a majority stake in DirecTV from AT&T for $7.6 billion....
Reddit has implemented new restrictions on moderators' ability to alter community visibility settings, the social media platform announced Monday. Moderators must now obtain admin approval before switching subreddits between public, private, or NSFW status. The move comes in ...
The Energy Department said on Monday that it had finalized a $1.52 billion loan guarantee to help a company restart a shuttered nuclear plant in Michigan -- the latest sign of rising government support for nuclear power. From a report: Two rural electricity providers that...
AmiMoJo writes: The UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal -- ending its 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel. The country's last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finishes operations on Monday after running since 1967. This marks a major...
Thousands of Verizon users across the United States reported having little or no cellphone service on Monday morning in major cities, including in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, New York and Phoenix. From a report: According to the website Downdetector, which tracks user reports...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, R.E.M., Burna Boy, Rush and many others are currently unplayable on YouTube in the U.S. due to a legal dispute between the platform and the performing rights organization SESAC. Attempts to play many, ...
AMD has released BIOS updates to boost performance and reduce latency for its Ryzen 9600X and 9700X processors. The updates come a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews and coincide with Windows 11 optimizations for AMD chips. The new AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 firmware...
Epic Games filed a new antitrust lawsuit against Google and Samsung, alleging they conspired to undermine third-party app stores. The suit focuses on Samsung's 'Auto Blocker' feature, now enabled by default on new phones, which restricts app installations to 'authorized...
Newsweek writes that the missing atmosphere of Mars 'may be locked up in the planet's clay-rich surface, a new study by MIT geologists has suggested.' According to the researchers, ancient water trickling through Mars' rocks could have triggered a series of chemical...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: In recent years — as longstanding efforts to recycle plastics have faltered — Exxon Mobil has touted advanced recycling as a groundbreaking technology that will turn the tide on the plastic crisis. But...
Scientific American has surprising news about the possibility of black holes the size of an atom but containing the mass of an asteroid — the so-called 'primordial black holes' formed after the birth of the universe which could solve the ongoing mystery of the missing dark...
As the Vice President of the United States travelled in a motorcade Saturday to a San Francisco hotel, they ended up stopped behind 'a Waymo vehicle that had to be driven away from the motorcade route by police,' according to a local newscast (which called it an 'only in San ...
U.S. real estate developers 'are having a hard time keeping up with demand,' reports the Los Angeles Times, 'as businesses in search of secure spots for their servers rent nearly every square foot that becomes available...' Construction of new data centers is at...
dimanche 29 septembre 2024, 23:51
'California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, a high-profile bill that would have regulated the development of AI,' reports TechCrunch. The bill 'would have made companies that develop AI models liable for implementing safety protocols to prevent 'critical harms'.'...
'For the first time, scientists have created a flexible programmable chip that is not made of silicon...' reports IEEE Spectrum — opening new possibilities for implantable devices, on-skin computers, brain-machine interfaces, and soft robotics. U.K.-based Pragmatic...
'SpaceX has temporarily grounded its Falcon 9 rocket,' reports Space.com, 'after the vehicle experienced an issue on the Crew-9 astronaut launch for NASA.' Crew-9 lifted off on Saturday (Sept. 28) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending NASA astronaut Nick ...
Long-time Slashdot reader AsylumWraith writes: Visual Capitalist has posted an article and graph showing that, on average, 67% of US tech workers would be interested in joining a union. The percentage is highest at companies like Intuit, with 94% or respondents indicating...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Look at the top right corner of your phone. You might see an icon with '5G' and another with vertical bars showing the strength of your internet connection. Those symbols don't mean what you think they do. If...
Thursday America's Food and Drug Administration approved Cobenfy, 'the first new drug to treat people with schizophrenia in more than 30 years,' reports ABC News: Most schizophrenia medications, broadly known as antipsychotics, work by changing dopamine levels, a brain...
J. Doyne Farmer is the director of the complexity economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking in Oxford's research and policy unit. And he reminds us that solar and wind energy 'are very likely to get even less expensive and grow quickly,' pointing out that...
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